It was originally announced a couple years back that Francis Lawrence (I Am Legend, Constantine) was on board to direct a feature film adaptation of the video game BioShock for Netflix, and a new update from producer Roy Lee this week suggests that’s still the case.
Lee explained at Comic-Con last night, however, that the scope of the project has changed.
“The new regime [at Netflix] has lowered the budgets,” Lee explains.
He adds, “So we’re doing a much smaller version… It’s going to be a more personal point of view, as opposed to a grander, more epic project.”
Stay tuned for more on Netflix’s BioShock movie as we learn it.
This update was provided by Roy Lee during Collider’s Producers on Producers panel at San Diego Comic-Con this week. Thanks to Deadline for providing the quote transcriptions.
Deadline recaps, “Set across multiple dystopian and visionary landscapes gone wrong, the BioShock video game series has blended sci-fi and horror to pose unique existential and societal questions reshaping how game stories are told—all amidst pulse-pounding action gameplay that rewards sharp shooting, clever planning and lethal improvisation. The award-winning franchise first introduced by 2K in 2007 has sold more than 39 million copies worldwide across the original releases of titles including BioShock, BioShock 2 and BioShock Infinite, as well as multiple rereleases, remastered editions and bundled collections.”
As you may recall, Gore Verbinski had been attached to bring the BioShock video game to the big screen back in 2008, just one year after the game was released. Verbinski’s plan was to make a rated “R” adaptation of the game, but at the time, Universal wasn’t too keen on spending so much money on an “R”-rated movie. This according to Verbinski back in 2017.
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